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...nice figures. They showed that Carter would lose to either Ford or Ronald Reagan if a presidential election were held now. The nationwide sampling of 1,498 voters gave Ford a 48%-to-43% lead, while Reagan squeaked by 47% to 46%. Among Democrats, moreover, Ted Kennedy would swamp Carter, 60% to 35% (and would beat the two Republicans handily as well). California's Jerry Brown? Nowhere. Ford would defeat Brown, 52% to 38%; Reagan would stop his successor in Sacramento, 52% to 40%. Even Carter clobbers Brown among Democrats...
...State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime to molest the "skunk ape," a mythical critter occasionally sighted around the state that is said to stand 7 ft. tall, weigh 700 lbs. and smell like swamp...
What is especially likable about the film is that Claude (Alain Cohen) is neither haunted nor hypersensitive, as teen agers customarily are in memoirs. He is a fairly good sort. His father, lost in the swamp of his mid-40s, can't quite figure out what's wrong with him. But he senses that the problem has something to do with the generative urge. He speaks with love of his marriage to Claude's mother, and it is clear that the love that is evident within the family has given Claude enough ballast to steady...
...Seashore has a visitor center in Eastham which is helpful, interesting and attractive. Also in Eastham, and part of the Seashore, are Coast Guard Beach and the Red Cedar Swamp. There is a path through the swamp which few people know about even though it is publicized at the visitors' center, well worth the hour it takes to walk...
...tiny Youngstown in Florida's panhandle, all five locomotives hurtled off the track, piling up 47 cars like jackstraws. From one ruptured tanker poured a cloud of deadly, yellowish-green chlorine gas. Engineer Ray Shores grabbed his portable short-wave radio and sprinted 75 yds. to a swamp, where he burrowed deep into the mud and called for help...